We are now writing the introductory chapter in TechAmerica’s research examining the nexus of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud. CSC is hosting a #SpeedIdeation event with an open discussion on the changing role of government, the meaning of national security, and our entire approach to intelligence collection and law enforcement.

I came up as a software developer and only recently have I gotten into data science. Software engineering is in my bones, but for many of my colleagues, software engineering is a bit of a mystery. That’s a problem because it affects productivity. Data scientists need software engineering skill — just not all the skills a professional software engineer needs. So what are the essential software engineering practices needed in data science?

In this #SpeedIdeation I’m calling on all software engineers, hackers, and data scientists to brainstorm on the best practices needed to write solid code in data science.

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https://speedideation.com/2014/09/05/speedideation-progress/#respondFri, 05 Sep 2014 08:56:16 +0000http://speedideation.com/2014/09/05/speedideation-progress/]]>After some days of vacation and business travel we’re now preparing the next session. In the meantime we did get some traction in the project(s) started and also received additional ideas.

I will post some updates over the weekend – next session date will also be published until Sunday

Send all your questions during CrowdChat – and keep going with additional ideas

/Chris

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https://speedideation.com/2014/08/13/2nd-speedideation-simulating-new-business-innovations/#respondWed, 13 Aug 2014 03:39:07 +0000http://speedideation.com/?p=184Read More]]>We’ve created a new method of business model simulation and used it to simulate the market disruption of Blockbuster by Netflix.

The simulation anticipates that the Netflix model can become profitable with much less investment than is required for the Blockbuster model; and it anticipates that the Netflix model has a greater overall revenue potential than the Blockbuster model [Des]:

The simulation predicts a period of similar performance, followed by a period where Netflix far outperforms Blockbuster, followed by another period of similar performance. Gross profit for Netflix and Blockbuster shows agreement between simulation and actual performance:

Figure 3: Gross profit of Blockbuster and Netflix from 1998 to 2008 [Top]

The method was useful in simulating real innovation, it made predictions matched observations, it produced real insight, and was easy to build using R.

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https://speedideation.com/2014/08/11/1st-speedideation-crowdchat-ended-successfully/#respondMon, 11 Aug 2014 15:37:31 +0000http://speedideation.com/?p=153]]>Thanks again to everybody who helped prepare, run and of course to all of those who joined in and volunteered to “get stuff done”.